Teen gets 9 years in videotaped sex assault posted on Facebook

Liam FordTribune reporter

A teen charged with sexually assaulting a 12-year-old girl as part of a videotaped attack that was later posted on Facebook pled guilty and was sentenced today to nine years in prison, according to prosecutors and court records.

Dyquier Garrett, 17, one of four teens charged in the Dec. 15, 2012 attack, pled guilty to aggravated criminal sexual assault before Criminal Court Judge Vincent Gaughan. The assaults took place at the home of Scandale Fritz, who in February pled guilty to aggravated criminal sexual assault and was sentenced to 26 years in prison.

Fritz, Kenneth Brown, and Justin Applewhite were arrested in May 2013 and indicted on sex assault charges in July 2013. At the time of the assaults, Fritz and Brown were both 15, and the other two were both 16.

The assaults took place around 3:30 p.m. on Dec. 15 in Fritz's home in the 400 block of West 60th Place in the Englewood neighborhood, according to police records. Fritz assaulted the girl first, followed by Brown and Applewhite, and Garrett arrived later and also assaulted her, prosecutors said.

The girl had gone to Fritz's house to talk to him because she knew him through her brother, authorities said. The girl twice refused to have sex with the boys before they forced her into in the basement, prosecutors said.

Fritz recorded the attacks, including Brown holding a gun and the boys yelling out references to the assaults and their gang, prosecutors said.

After the first series of assaults, Garrett came over to the house and watched the video with Fritz and Applewhite, after which Fritz told Garrett the girl, then 12 years old, would have sex with him also, prosecutors said. Garrett went into the basement with the girl alone and forced her to have sex, prosecutors said.

Dyquier Garrett, 17, was sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty in the sex assault of a 12-year-old girl.

Dyquier Garrett, 17, was sentenced to nine years in prison after pleading guilty in the sex assault of a 12-year-old girl.

A day after the assaults, the girl told a relative about the attacks and a police report was filed and the girl treated and examined at a hospital. On Dec. 17, the video was posted on Brown's Facebook page, and then on Fritz's and Applewhite's Facebook pages, prosecutors said.

Charges against Garrett were delayed because investigators were awaiting lab results from tests conducted by the Illinois State Police.